Wire fence.



No. 798,685. PATENTED SEPT. 5, 1905. T. LITWILLER.

WIRE FENCE,

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WIRE FENCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 5, 1905.

Application filed September 14. 1903. Serial NI. 173,058.

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Be it known that I, Tnonas LrrwILLnn, a citizen of the United States,residing at Treinont, in the county of Tazewell and State of Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \Vire Fences; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, which will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has reference to wire fencing or wire-fence fabrics.

It comprises in its structure a fence similar to that shown in myapplication filed November 15, 1902, Serial No. 131,401, wherein afabric is formed of body-wires and sclvagestrands. and connected orintertwisted with the body-wires and sclvage-strands are staywires thatbear diagonally to the body of the fence and are inter-twisted with theselvage and body wires where they intersect alternatelyover and under.In the application re ferred to the twists of the stays with the bodyand selvage wires are always in the same directionthat is. the twist isa continuous right or left twist.

The objectwhich I. have in view in the present invention is to constructa fence fabric lnrving stays bearing diagonally to the body of the fenceand at the intersection of the body and selvage wires intertwisted orinterlocked therewith with a right-and-left twist or vice versa.

Further objects and aims of the invention will appear from the followingspecification, claim,and accompanying drawings.in which Figure 1, drawnto a small scale, shows a strip of fence embodying my improvements as itappears when placed in the field. Fig. 2, drawn to a larger scale, showsmore clearly the detail construction of the fence.

The fence comprises what will be hereinafter known as the selvagc-wires1 and the bodywires" 2, arranged at suitable intervals apart from achother intermediate the selvagewires to present a uni form or graduatedmesh, as may be desired. 3 indicates stays, preferably of wire. spacedat suitable intervals apartand adapted to bcintertwisted or interlockedwith the selvage and body wires, which together comprise my improvedfencing.

The selvagewires are shown as single strands; but it is to be understoodthat a suitable cable-strand may be employed and the invention carriedout as herein provided.

As indicated, the stays 3 bear diagonally across the body and selvagewires.

At the intersection of each of above-said wires the stays areinterlocked thercwith--that is, the stays are gripped, together with thebody and selvage wires, at at to form the parallel plain portion of thestay and body or selvage wires and the action of the shuttle, spool, orcoiler carrying the stay or engaging the stay and body wire or sclvageis to intertwist or interlock the wires to form a rightand-left (orleft-and-right) twist upon opposite sides of the gripped or plainportions. The nature of the twist or lock .of the wires is to produce atwist which shall be. longer upon one side of the gripped or plainportion 4 than upon the opposite side. as seen in Fig. 2. In carryingout the invention the stay-wires are directed alternately over and underthe intersecting strand-wires, so as to form an interlock with saidstrands first in a direction right and left and alternately left andright. This alternate arrangement is accomplished by rotating theshuttle or spools first in one direction and then in an oppositedirection.

\Vhere the ends of the stays leave the spools or shuttles or are cutafter completing their required interlock. the end of such stay isdirected longitudinally along the salvage and in juxtaposition thereto,as at A better understamling of the diagonal of the stay-wires and theiralternate interlocking in reverse directions with the intersectingstrainl-wires will be had from the following: Follow the complete stayin Fig. 1 (indicated as H) leading from the lower selvage-wire 1. Thesaid stay is interlocked with the selvagcwire for a portion of itslength. It is then led diagonally and in advance of its interlock withsaid selvage-wire to the adjacent intermediate strainl-wire Qandinterlocked therewith in a reverse direction to the interlock of thesclvage-wire. The stay-wire is then led diagonally to the next adjacentintermediate strand-wire in manner as before and continued to be so leduntil it coincides with the upper sclvage-wire. As before stated, theinterlocking of the stay-wire with the intersecting strand and selvagewires being alternately right and left and left and right. in thecompletion of a stay the same bears diagonally from selvage to selurge-wires and formsan are between their ends. substantially as seen inFig. 'I.

It is understood, as in the application rcfcrrcd to, to manufacture afencing which may be produced at a minimum cost and delivered from themachine operated to produce a continuously-made fabric.

1 am aware that the interlocking or intertwisting of one or more wireshaving a rightand-left twist is not new; but this is in a fabric havinga hexagonal mesh where the bodywires are fed longitudinally and in asinuous line; but I do not know of a stay-fence Where the stays arecarried diagonally across the fabric and interlocked with the body andselvage Wires at their intersection which produces a fabric havingsubstantially a rectangular mesh.

The operation of a machine to produce such a fabric as herein shown isvastly different to those which produce a hexagonal mesh, and neithercould be made upon the other machine. Likewise in the applicationreferred to the mode of interlocking the diagonal stay is entirelydifferent from those which produce a continuous twist all in the samedirection. As the stays bear diagonally across the fabric so are thetwists measured along the wiresin the same longitudinal direction. Bydirecting the stays diagonally and forming an interlocked twist at theintersection of the strand-wires l form a mesh with the short liquelyacross the body-wires from selvagewire to selvage-wire, adjacent staysextending approximately parallel and at each succeeding point ofintersection with the rselva'ge and body wires intertwisted therewith bya right-and-left intertwist and alternately by a left-and-rightintertwist and having the twists measured along the body and selvagewires in the same direction.

In testimony whereof laflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS LITVVILLER.

\Vitness es:

CHAs. W. LA FORTE, A. B. LA Pon'rn.

